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Station Ident: Vworp

Couldn't resist Pia Guerra's wonderful piece from the 13th Doctor art thread on my message board.   Morning.  This is Warren Ellis Dot Com.

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T-shirt Of The Fortnight: WARREN ELLIS MADE ME DO IT

This is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull regularly in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt.

Previously, this was a weekly gag. Summer was a bugger, and made us shift to monthly, and autumn is only looking slightly better. So we're shifting to fortnightly. Until I either run out...

Station Ident: I'm Alive, It Just Doesn't Feel That Way

(Romi Galie)

FLURB #10

My favourite sf magazine has its tenth issue online. New writing by Bruce Sterling, Kek, Annalee Newitz, Ian Watson, John Shirley. Lovely.

Twitter: A Drainage Gully For Mental Slurry

For a while, I had a capture of my twitter feed running here. It ended up doing something weird to my API calls, stopping me from running my desktop client, so I killed it. Which is probably just as well, asI talk a lot of shit on Twitter. It's basically mental slurry, the wet lumpy bits from a day spent at the keyboard vented off into a trap so the buildup doesn't blow some crucial valve in my head. Look at these, from the last few months:

* A shot of breakfast whisky, fresh pack of smokes...

REMAKE/REMODEL: The Thirteenth Doctor

Every week at my message board, I set artists a redesign challenge. Because artists need to be tormented. This week, I said this to them:

A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before dying. Thirteen incarnations in all.

Design the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor.

You may additionally redesign the DOCTOR WHO logo, the TARDIS and other elements of the property should you so wish.

And then Ben Templesmith sort of committed an airstrike:

The good Doctor is now in a vague military type...

Memory9 – Crash by Outpost Music PR

Memory9 – Crash by Outpost Music PR

Station Ident: She's Keeping An Eye On You While I Work

(Marie Rameau)

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UK Kindle. Probably the easiest way to find it in the U...

UK Kindle. Probably the easiest way to find it in the UK, too. US Kindle. Much easier to find in print over there, but you might want to fill your little slate up.

National Holiday

The rain's finally died off enough for me to be able to sit in my own back garden with the netbook on the garden furniture I purchased about four weeks ago. The rain started a day later. Ha ha.

National holiday here today. Lili's off having her annual photos taken by our photographer friend Paula, who's been shooting her once a year since she was born. I've got a WIRED UK column to file by the 3rd, and a large and pressing job to get on an editor's desk before then that'll determine much o...